As Michael Jackson saw it, children would become enamored with his personality as well as want to touch and hug him and sometimes it [got] me into trouble, the late US pop superstar says in previously unheard audio recordings contained in a new documentary. The UK's Wonderhood Studios included the recordings of Jackson voicing those thoughts for a new four-episode documentary series beginning on Wednesday that explores his acquittal on child sexual abuse charges after a 14-week criminal trial near Los Angeles in 2005.
There's a lot to be said for spontaneity. That's how Ed and I did a lot of things together in the studio. He would just play, and we would just take snippets of it, and then you elaborate on little ideas and make a song out of it.